Hervé Stevenin | |
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| Born | (1962-09-25)25 September 1962 (age 63) |
| Education | Aerospace Engineering,ISAE-ENSMA,ISAE-SUPAERO,PADI Diving Instructor |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer,astronaut instructor, EuropeanEVA expert,parabolic flight astronaut trainer |
| Employer(s) | ESA,European Astronaut Centre |
| Known for | Aquanaut |
| Title | Head of NBF Operations andEVA Training Unit |
Hervé Stevenin (born 25 September 1962) is a Europeanaquanaut leadingESA Neutral Buoyancy Facility Operations and theEVA Training Unit at theEuropean Astronaut Centre (EAC) inCologne, Germany. He served as anaquanaut[1][2] on theNASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 19 (NEEMO 19) crew.
Stevenin has received extensiveastronaut training and is the only "non-astronaut" European citizen withspacewalk training experience inside both NASA'sExtravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) and RussianOrlan space suit. Stevenin has more than 20 years' experience in astronaut training and providing operational support for astronauts.
Stevenin graduated as an aerospace engineer from the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-ENSMA[3] & ISAE-SUPAERO) specialising in orbital and space mechanics.
He worked for 12 years at the French government space agencyCNES asSPOT (satellite) system operations engineer for four years and as manager of the Crew Training and Operations for six years for three French astronaut missions to theMir space station. He was a French Capcom in the RussianTSUP Control Center inMoscow for these three missions.
When he joined ESA and the European Astronaut Centre in 1999 as the Head of the Payload Training Unit in the Astronaut Training Division, he developed and implemented the first ESA Payload Training Programme at EAC for theInternational Space Station astronauts and was later trained and certified asColumbus (ISS module) Operator.
Stevenin served three times as member of the Search and Rescue Team inKazakhstan for the spacecraft landing of European astronauts.
In 2004 Stevenin receivedspacewalk training in NASA'sExtravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits at theJohnson Space Center and at theNeutral Buoyancy Laboratory inHouston, and completed in 2011 six weeks of EVA training and certification in the RussianOrlan space suit at theYuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City, Russia), inMoscow with ESA astronautAndreas Mogensen.
This spacewalk training experience led to the development and implementation of Europe's unique EVA Pre-Familiarisation, Proficiency Rebuilt & Recurrent Training course, which is now part ofESA's training for European astronauts.[4] Stevenin is ESA'sspacewalk instructor for European astronauts and has leads since 2007 the team that develops and implements spacewalk training at EAC.[5] He has provided EVA training at EAC to the six European astronauts selected by ESA in 2009.
Stevenin applied to become anastronaut in Europe's astronaut selection of 2009 and was one of the last 45 finalists out of 8413astronaut applicants from 17 European countries.
Stevenin is also ESA'sZero-G Instructor for European astronauts inparabolic flights[6] and has logged more than 800 parabolas inmicrogravity experiencing almost five hours ofweightlessness in total on boardReduced gravity aircraft (theCaravelle Zero-G, theAirbus A300 ZERO-G and NASA'sKC-135/930).
Stevenin served as EUROCOM, the Europeancapsule communicator (CAPCOM) that communicates from Columbus Control Centre with astronauts in orbit. He led the Eurocom Team from 2007 to 2012 and served in 2012 as CAPCOM and support diver of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO 16).[7]
In September 2013, Stevenin and ESA astronautJean-François Clervoy slipped into the roles ofNeil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin for an underwater simulation test ofApollo 11 moonwalk tasks, organised by theCompagnie maritime d'expertises (COMEX) off the coast ofMarseille, France.[8][9] They tested a COMEX-designed prototype training-spacesuit based on the Orlan adapted to simulateMoon gravity.[10][11]
Stevenin became anaquanaut through his participation in the NASA NEEMO 19 mission simulating undersea a space exploration mission aboardAquarius, the world onlyundersea research laboratory[12] with crewmates[13]NASA astronautRandy Bresnik,ESA astronautAndreas Mogensen andCSA astronautJeremy Hansen. Prior to the NEEMO 19 mission Stevenin was quoted as saying that "It is a privilege to be part of the crew with three astronauts. I am looking forward to take part in this outstanding project to test future concepts for space operations as well as evaluating spacewalk tools, techniques and man–machine interfaces for future space exploration beyond the International Space Station."[14]
Stevenin is a certifiedPADI "Open WaterScuba diving &Nitrox Instructor"[15] and an Emergency First Response (CPR/First Aid/AED) Instructor and has logged more than 400 dives.
He has aprivate pilot licence (EASA Part-FCL) and was certified in France foraerobatics flights in positive G. He hasskydiving experience and has logged 60 parachuting jumps.
He is married and has one daughter.
